When XP was brought out, didn't Bill Gates say the underlying DOS was not there anymore? I doubt he would say that if it was not true. I have seen stories about certain Governments getting the Windows source code. If that happens, it'll leak out, and we'll then know if DOS is required or not to run windows. Nice thought, that Windows is just another wm. Makes me want to run icewm, and save some processing power. I do that now with RHL 7.1. I have some more RAM ordered, but for now, I run icewm to lighten the load as compared to KDE. Very clever, really, of Cringley to present us with the "Windows XP = a wm" idea.
I had one of the Toshiba drives, back when they were 340 MB, but did not have enough slots for everything. It came down to a choice between the modem or the PCMCIA HDD. I would want one of the 80 GB drives mentioned in the story, especially if they were $80.00. Right now on this PC, I have two drives, one 2 GB, one 540 MB, and run RHL 6.1 on the small one, and RHL 7.1/Win98 on the big drive, which is primary master, with lilo. I use a boot disk to get into the RHL 6.1 drive. Point is, I, (and a lot of others) want and can use, a big drive. For budget-minded PC'ers like myself, it comes down to getting more RAM, or getting more HDD space. The Linux drives move from PC to PC more easily, IMHO than Win98 drives, unless the hardware is identical. I can move a Linux drive from master to slave by just editing/etc/fstab (use tomsrtbt), and I'm good to go! (This drive I'm on right now is an example). So, a removable drive seems attractive to me.
Your book falls out of the bass boat.
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You paddle back to where it is floating, and pick it up, none the worse for the wear.
Earlier today, I wished for the death of "X windows", especially since I couldn't get mine to run. Seems I did not properly identify my video card, so I had to run a RHL 6.1 install again, and let it alone while it picked up on the card. Now, in a short while, I have 32 bit color, and I love X windows again, and even made a copy of my XF86Config file on a floppy, along with other successful X -Windows battles won. No, linux is not like Windows, and for that reason one can more easily move a hdd from one machine to another, and to another location, such as slave hdd, when it was a master originally. Somehow, however, Windows can put Netscape 4.79 up there in wonderful style, but prone to crashes on some web sites, that one can recover from in Linux more easily. I use both OS's, and enjoy the comparison. One personal favorite, (besides KDE) is icewm.
Still, Opera for Windows and Linux are fine browsers, and well worth the download. Main problem I have on some Linux systems with Opera is the fonts. That can be a bear to solve, and is, according to Opera, your fault. I am, however, using Phoenix 0.4 for Windows now, and I love it. Didn't have to muck around in the prefs for the popup killer, it's on by default. Smoothed out the Internet right away, that popup killer:-)
13,406 visits? My page counter says I've only gotten 24:-(
What's wrong with a Marilyn Monroe themed amazon.com page? Otherwise, I have no problems with Amazon, but I only grossed $40.00 this year, with a commission of $2.00:-)
------ It's here:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/geo12.html
And the name "Ernest" reminds me of the "Ernest" series of funny films. Jim Varney said this:
"Ernest is a neighbor or relative that we've all had at one time. He's
abrasive, but he doesn't mean to be. He gets excited and ends up
standing on your toes. I try to make him clownish and I don't want him too
low-key; and he's physically funny." -- Jim Varney.
Now, back to "Glitch".
Always wondered where the saying, "I got a glitch in it!" came from.
Old pc's? If they still boot, then send 'em to me. Don't throw them away until I see what I can do with them. (This post is being made on a Compaq 575 running RHL 6.1, and Opera 6.1)
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Here's the mandatory Slashdot "Truth in Posting" statement:
"Yes, I am using a Compaq 575, but I have an AMD K6-2 processor, and 192 MB of ram, and an S3 Trio 64+ graphics card"
(more arm twisting from Slashdot)
"Oh yes, all this is on the Slave HDD. I have Micro$soft Windows 98 on the Master."
I tried to download the installer yesterday, prior to the DHTML repair, and on a machine running Mandrake 8.0, 128 mb ram, it crashed a couple of times, then wouldn't do at all. Then I tried to get the tarball, and that bogged down too. I'll try again...
I pay about $6.00 a month for Yahoo-Geocities, and it's ok, except for the spyware that they put in your pages. Angelfire is cleaner, for your $6.00, and on dialup, takes less time to download and complete the page than Yahoo-Geocities, because of the extra connections, etc. to the extra stuff they put in. To see that, view the source in this page of mine,
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/geo7.html
I have no idea why they would have my page connect to the "domainpending" site, unless they want to see how many hits I get on a "free" server, so they can decide if I need some spam about a Domain Name or something.
I have a Macintosh Quadra 660av with system 7.5.3 on it, and a "ram disk" is set up, so I use it for the browser's disk cache, hoping against all hope to speed up the loading of frequently-visited web pages. This thing is slow, even compared to my IBM PS/1 with an AMD 586 upgrade processor, and 32 mb of 30-pin ram and a 25 mhz bus, running Windows 98. There's only so much I can get out of the ram on these machines, but improvements can be made over time. One secret to keeping the Quadra from locking up is to use matching ram sticks. I can go quite a while now without a lockup, and I consider myself lucky to go over an hour;-)
Well, I can't get broadband cable here anyway, so the idea about dsl looks good. All I want broadband for anyway is to download linux distro iso's so I don't have to pay 'em for a cd.
I've been trying Phoenix for Windows and Linux, and have been told it is based on a lot of mozilla code. Phoenix is very nice, but won't run on Redhat 6.1 like Opera will.:-(
IMHO, Linux users/fans will cheer for any os, hardware, etc. that is, in it's own right, a good thing. Regardless of who does it. Linux is just a "bathtub full of applications" isn't it? All kinds of stuff, from everywhere. When I am surfing the web with a linux/windows box, and I find a game, etc. that might be interesting to run on my Windows 98 partition, I just download it from my linux partition, and then reboot to Windows to go explore it, etc. Why should I keep the two os's separated on two different boxes? On the other hand, the typical Windows user has no linux partition on his machine, but I'll be willing to bet that most Linux users have Windows also, especially since HDD capacity now runs well over 30 GB in many machines. Now, the tablet pc can hold a linux installation, can't it? That's the real reason why "Linux fans cheer."
Try "startx" right away, without running xconfigurator, or xf86config. See what you get.
Save it as XF86Config_working, then go ahead and
run xf86config and try and get something better. If you get X to run, at least you won't overwrite a good configuration while you try and get one running;-)
(This is my tip of the day, works on Grey Cat Linux.)
They said they would try and reduce the size, and they have. I'm using Phoenix 0.3, "20021016" for linux right now, and it's very nice. I like the popup blocking, turned on by default. Also, I cannot find any differences between the Linux and Windows versions. So used to having Windows versions of programs, browsers, etc. with many more features than with Linux. Only drawback, I can't seem to install Phoenix on a Redhat 6.1 system. Opera 6.03 for Linux will install on both 6.1 and 7.1. I note the file name of the tarball has -i686 in it, I suppose that's why it works on
Redhat 7.1 and not on 6.1. Anyway, I am using Phoenix now over Opera on most of my Windows and Linux machines. Can't wait to see what else the Phoenix folks will have next!
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I use Phoenix 0.3 on Windows and Linux, and it's great. Very few bugs. Easy to uninstall prior to upgrade on Linux, just delete the directory, keep your shortcuts to it, when the new one is downloaded and gunzipped, tar -xvf'd you are ready to go, no "install.sh" to run. your preferences are still there in your user directory, so your toolbar comes up as you had it. The popup blocking is on by default, so you get the benefit of it right away.
First thing I did was see if I could get another stand-alone browser to run on top of the AOL connection. It would, but the combination of having to keep the AOL client afloat to keep the connection going was often too much. Much simpler to just use a local ISP and Netscape. Before AOL I used Compuserve and Mosaic (built in the the Compuserve client), and that worked ok, but was too expensive. I quickly switched to a local ISP. I ran AOL for a long while with the BYOA (bring your own access) plan, but when they went up on the price, I dropped AOL altogether. I made use of the AOL FTP server while I had the account, and provided some.zips of my programs, etc.
AOL is too expensive for what you get. The so called "chat" rooms are nothing like the compuserve forums were IMHO. Of course, with Netscape and an ISP you can get usenet, with some quality forums available in many topic areas.
Anyone else notice this problem? (ot) I notice that msie 6 "waits" 20 or 30 seconds before going to get the web page you have clicked on. I've seen this on several machines. Opera, Netscape, Mozilla for Windows and Linux don't exhibit this annoying trait. What is going on? It can't be in the windows dialup software, as Opera 6.05, for instance, dives right in and gets your page. It's so bad on Internet Explorer 6 sometimes, that it quits, and displays the "can't get the page" message! Now, about the topic at hand: Although one can now run Everquest on a Linux box, this seems to be the long way around, and wouldn't this require more cpu power, memory, etc than running Everquest on Windows 98 or XP? I tried WineX once, and I wasn't impressed, but now, I suppose, it is greatly improved. (I just don't have the hardware to run it well)
They need to get the one they have running right first. I find some problems with Phoenix 0.2 on some web pages in the area around the.gif files. Netscape 4.79, and Opera 6.05 render these items correctly, so Phoenix should also. I should mention that these tests were performed on ET4000, 512K graphics, which is old, out of date stuff. Works with above mentioned Netscape and Opera (win 98), however. I have tested the Linux version of Phoenix 0.2, with a 4 MB graphics card, and everythings fine there. Was pleased to find that the Linux verson has all of the features of the Windows version, something that's not always found. I heard that the Netscape 4.51 that comes with Redhat 6.1 is really a port of a Windows 3.1 version, so it is not up to par with the Windows version of that number. Currently I am testing Phoenix 0.2 with a 2 MB S-3 Trio 64v+ card, and it's ok there. May not be as fast (once booted up) as mozilla, but it's hard to tell, and I have heard that they are going to optimize the code a bit in 0.3 due out Tomorrow.
To locate Pirate Ships: First, have have police watch reruns of "Treasure Island", to get the general idea of who, what they are looking for. Then, turn them loose, and on the way out, holler: "Remember, it's the ships with the "Jolly Roger" flag!". They may not catch any CD pirates this way, but the Oceans will be a LOT safer for the rest of us if they actually come across and catch any REAL pirates!
I notice that google gives a date with the results, and that this is when the googlebot, apparently, visited the link. As a test, I put my keywords in over several days, and google returned the page I was looking for with a date that was, in most cases, only a few days old, together with a short sentence from the beginning of the page. I had thought that googlebot took a month to go around the internet and list all the pages, but from this date thing, I would think that googlebot only takes a few days at the most. Try this: put "gary gray tropical discussion" in google. I just did, and the date returned is 10-1. I didn't put it there, googlebot must have, IMHO. Very nice, anyway, and google and search engines that work with a bot remain my favorite.
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When XP was brought out, didn't Bill Gates say the underlying DOS was not there anymore? I doubt he would say that if it was not true. I have seen stories about certain Governments getting the Windows source code. If that happens, it'll leak out, and we'll then know if DOS is required or not to run windows. Nice thought, that Windows is just another wm. Makes me want to run icewm, and save some processing power. I do that now with RHL 7.1. I have some more RAM ordered, but for now, I run icewm to lighten the load as compared to KDE. Very clever, really, of Cringley to present us with the "Windows XP = a wm" idea.
I had one of the Toshiba drives, back when they were 340 MB, but did not have enough slots for everything. It came down to a choice between the modem or the PCMCIA HDD. I would want one of the 80 GB drives mentioned in the story, especially if they were $80.00. Right now on this PC, I have two drives, one 2 GB, one 540 MB, and run RHL 6.1 on the small one, and RHL 7.1/Win98 on the big drive, which is primary master, with lilo. I use a boot disk to get into the RHL 6.1 drive. Point is, I, (and a lot of others) want and can use, a big drive. For budget-minded PC'ers like myself, it comes down to getting more RAM, or getting more HDD space. The Linux drives move from PC to PC more easily, IMHO than Win98 drives, unless the hardware is identical. I can move a Linux drive from master to slave by just editing /etc/fstab (use tomsrtbt), and I'm good to go! (This drive I'm on right now is an example). So, a removable drive seems attractive to me.
You paddle back to where it is floating, and pick it up, none the worse for the wear.
Earlier today, I wished for the death of "X windows", especially since I couldn't get mine to run. Seems I did not properly identify my video card, so I had to run a RHL 6.1 install again, and let it alone while it picked up on the card. Now, in a short while, I have 32 bit color, and I love X windows again, and even made a copy of my XF86Config file on a floppy, along with other successful X -Windows battles won. No, linux is not like Windows, and for that reason one can more easily move a hdd from one machine to another, and to another location, such as slave hdd, when it was a master originally. Somehow, however, Windows can put Netscape 4.79 up there in wonderful style, but prone to crashes on some web sites, that one can recover from in Linux more easily. I use both OS's, and enjoy the comparison. One personal favorite, (besides KDE) is icewm.
Still, Opera for Windows and Linux are fine browsers, and well worth the download. Main problem I have on some Linux systems with Opera is the fonts. That can be a bear to solve, and is, according to Opera, your fault. I am, however, using Phoenix 0.4 for Windows now, and I love it. Didn't have to muck around in the prefs for the popup killer, it's on by default. Smoothed out the Internet right away, that popup killer:-)
13,406 visits? My page counter says I've only gotten 24:-(
What's wrong with a Marilyn Monroe themed amazon.com page? Otherwise, I have no problems with Amazon, but I only grossed $40.00 this year, with a commission of $2.00:-)
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It's here:
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/geo12.html
And the name "Ernest" reminds me of the "Ernest" series of funny films. Jim Varney said this:
"Ernest is a neighbor or relative that we've all had at one time. He's abrasive, but he doesn't mean to be. He gets excited and ends up standing on your toes. I try to make him clownish and I don't want him too low-key; and he's physically funny." -- Jim Varney.
Now, back to "Glitch". Always wondered where the saying, "I got a glitch in it!" came from.
Old pc's? If they still boot, then send 'em to me. Don't throw them away until I see what I can do with them.
(This post is being made on a Compaq 575 running RHL 6.1, and Opera 6.1)
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Here's the mandatory Slashdot "Truth in Posting" statement:
"Yes, I am using a Compaq 575, but I have an AMD K6-2 processor, and 192 MB of ram, and an S3 Trio 64+ graphics card"
(more arm twisting from Slashdot)
"Oh yes, all this is on the Slave HDD. I have Micro$soft Windows 98 on the Master."
I tried to download the installer yesterday, prior to the DHTML repair, and on a machine running Mandrake 8.0, 128 mb ram, it crashed a couple of times, then wouldn't do at all. Then I tried to get the tarball, and that bogged down too. I'll try again...
I pay about $6.00 a month for Yahoo-Geocities, and it's ok, except for the spyware that they put in your pages. Angelfire is cleaner, for your $6.00, and on dialup, takes less time to download and complete the page than Yahoo-Geocities, because of the extra connections, etc. to the extra stuff they put in. To see that, view the source in this page of mine,
http://www.geocities.com/rapidweather/geo7.html
I have no idea why they would have my page connect to the "domainpending" site, unless they want to see how many hits I get on a "free" server, so they can decide if I need some spam about a Domain Name or something.
I had a 33 mhz 486 when everybody else had a Pentium 200!
By default, Phoenix has popup blocking, and IMHO makes the internet experience better. If popups are so "good", let /. itself start using them...
I have a Macintosh Quadra 660av with system 7.5.3 on it, and a "ram disk" is set up, so I use it for the browser's disk cache, hoping against all hope to speed up the loading of frequently-visited web pages. This thing is slow, even compared to my IBM PS/1 with an AMD 586 upgrade processor, and 32 mb of 30-pin ram and a 25 mhz bus, running Windows 98. ;-)
There's only so much I can get out of the ram on these machines, but improvements can be made over time. One secret to keeping the Quadra from locking up is to use matching ram sticks. I can go quite a while now without a lockup, and I consider myself lucky to go over an hour
Well, I can't get broadband cable here anyway, so the idea about dsl looks good. All I want broadband for anyway is to download linux distro iso's so I don't have to pay 'em for a cd.
I've been trying Phoenix for Windows and Linux, and :-(
have been told it is based on a lot of mozilla code.
Phoenix is very nice, but won't run on Redhat 6.1 like Opera will.
IMHO, Linux users/fans will cheer for any os, hardware, etc. that is, in it's own right, a good thing. Regardless of who does it. Linux is just a "bathtub full of applications" isn't it? All kinds of stuff, from everywhere. When I am surfing the web with a linux/windows box, and I find a game, etc. that might be interesting to run on my Windows 98 partition, I just download it from my linux partition, and then reboot to Windows to go explore it, etc. Why should I keep the two os's separated on two different boxes? On the other hand, the typical Windows user has no linux partition on his machine, but I'll be willing to bet that most Linux users have Windows also, especially since HDD capacity now runs well over 30 GB in many machines. Now, the tablet pc can hold a linux installation, can't it? That's the real reason why "Linux fans cheer."
Try "startx" right away, without running xconfigurator, or xf86config. See what you get. Save it as XF86Config_working, then go ahead and run xf86config and try and get something better. If you get X to run, at least you won't overwrite a good configuration while you try and get one running;-) (This is my tip of the day, works on Grey Cat Linux.)
We have Opera 6.1 B1 for Linux to download, now also Mozilla 1.2 B. Leaves little time to play with Phoenix 0.3!
They said they would try and reduce the size, and they have. I'm using Phoenix 0.3, "20021016" for linux right now, and it's very nice. I like the popup blocking, turned on by default. Also, I cannot find any differences between the Linux and Windows versions. So used to having Windows versions of programs, browsers, etc. with many more features than with Linux. Only drawback, I can't seem to install Phoenix on a Redhat 6.1 system. Opera 6.03 for Linux will install on both 6.1 and 7.1. I note the file name of the tarball has -i686 in it, I suppose that's why it works on Redhat 7.1 and not on 6.1. Anyway, I am using Phoenix now over Opera on most of my Windows and Linux machines.
Can't wait to see what else the Phoenix folks will have next!
I use Phoenix 0.3 on Windows and Linux, and it's great. Very few bugs.
Easy to uninstall prior to upgrade on Linux, just delete the directory, keep your shortcuts to it, when the new one is downloaded and gunzipped, tar -xvf'd you are ready to go, no "install.sh" to run. your preferences are still there in your user directory, so your toolbar comes up as you had it.
The popup blocking is on by default, so you get the benefit of it right away.
First thing I did was see if I could get another stand-alone browser to run on top of the AOL connection. It would, but the combination of having to keep the AOL client afloat to keep the connection going was often too much. Much simpler to just use a local ISP and Netscape. Before AOL I used Compuserve and Mosaic (built in the the Compuserve client), and that worked ok, but was too expensive. I quickly switched to a local ISP. .zips of my programs, etc.
I ran AOL for a long while with the BYOA (bring your own access) plan, but when they went up on the price, I dropped AOL altogether. I made use of the AOL FTP server while I had the account, and provided some
AOL is too expensive for what you get.
The so called "chat" rooms are nothing like the compuserve forums were IMHO. Of course, with Netscape and an ISP you can get usenet, with some quality forums available in many topic areas.
Anyone else notice this problem? (ot)
I notice that msie 6 "waits" 20 or 30 seconds before going to get the web page you have clicked on. I've seen this on several machines. Opera, Netscape, Mozilla for Windows and Linux don't exhibit this annoying trait. What is going on? It can't be in the windows dialup software, as Opera 6.05, for instance, dives right in and gets your page. It's so bad on Internet Explorer 6 sometimes, that it quits, and displays the "can't get the page" message! Now, about the topic at hand: Although one can now run Everquest on a Linux box, this seems to be the long way around, and wouldn't this require more cpu power, memory, etc than running Everquest on Windows 98 or XP?
I tried WineX once, and I wasn't impressed, but now, I suppose, it is greatly improved. (I just don't have the hardware to run it well)
They need to get the one they have running right first. I find some problems with Phoenix 0.2 on some web pages in the area around the .gif files. Netscape 4.79, and Opera 6.05 render these items correctly, so Phoenix should also. I should mention that these tests were performed on ET4000, 512K graphics, which is old, out of date stuff. Works with above mentioned Netscape and Opera (win 98), however. I have tested the Linux version of Phoenix 0.2, with a 4 MB graphics card, and everythings fine there. Was pleased to find that the Linux verson has all of the features of the Windows version, something that's not always found. I heard that the Netscape 4.51 that comes with Redhat 6.1 is really a port of a Windows 3.1 version, so it is not up to par with the Windows version of that number. Currently I am testing Phoenix 0.2 with a 2 MB S-3 Trio 64v+ card, and it's ok there. May not be as fast (once booted up) as mozilla, but it's hard to tell, and I have heard that they are going to optimize the code a bit in 0.3 due out Tomorrow.
To locate Pirate Ships:
First, have have police watch reruns of
"Treasure Island", to get the general idea of who, what they are looking for.
Then, turn them loose, and on the way out, holler:
"Remember, it's the ships with the "Jolly Roger" flag!".
They may not catch any CD pirates this way, but the Oceans will be a LOT safer for the rest of us if they actually come across and catch any REAL pirates!
I notice that google gives a date with the results, and that this is when the googlebot, apparently, visited the link. As a test, I put my keywords in over several days, and google returned the page I was looking for with a date that was, in most cases, only a few days old, together with a short sentence from the beginning of the page. I had thought that googlebot took a month to go around the internet and list all the pages, but from this date thing, I would think that googlebot only takes a few days at the most. Try this: put "gary gray tropical discussion" in google. I just did, and the date returned is 10-1. I didn't put it there, googlebot must have, IMHO. Very nice, anyway, and google and search engines that work with a bot remain my favorite.